rock-and-roll

My Mom Got Catfished by ‘Eric Clapton’

When Brian’s mom informed him that she’d started dating again, the 17-year-old was caught off guard. “She’d dated before so I wasn’t surprised by that,”…

Rod Stewart Got the Last Laugh With ‘Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?’

Disco-haters yelled sellout when the ‘Maggie May’ superstar concocted this frothy hit. But his salute to two shy, horny strangers revealed a lot about straight men’s discomfort with their own sexiness

I Took to the Sea with a Rock Band Playing for Cargo Ship Crews

The Get Lost Losers had one objective: Give the sailors stuck at sea something to smile about

The Sexual Fluidity and Eternal Cool of the Velvet Underground

Todd Haynes, the director of a great new documentary about the influential 1960s band, discusses the group’s erotic charge, their dismantling of masculinity and why frontman Lou Reed remains a fascinating mystery